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The Evilution: Rise of the Antichrist - Blood of the Lamb
Masquerading as the powerful Vatican Bishop, Cardinal David Xzytun — the ultimate “Evil” has incarnated with intent to control, as puppet master, a Caesar for his new Roman Empire.
Standing tenuously on the side of hope amidst the encroaching apocalyptic doom is Dr. Paul Bradfield. A man conflicted between rational science and matters of faith regarding unexplained supernatural occurrences, and the horrifying deaths of several of his closest friends.
Only Jennifer Dowling, Bradfield’s true love. And Matt Larsen, his slovenly yet brilliant friend … recognize the unholy phenomenon which has fixated on, or perhaps emanates from Father Joseph, Bradfield’s dearest friend of all.
What will come of humanity when the clock counts down the impending rapture? Can one man make the difference, and stave-off mankind's ultimate doom at least for the time being? … When all roads appear to lead to one inexorable horrific beginning of the end … that is…
The Evilution.
Standing tenuously on the side of hope amidst the encroaching apocalyptic doom is Dr. Paul Bradfield. A man conflicted between rational science and matters of faith regarding unexplained supernatural occurrences, and the horrifying deaths of several of his closest friends.
Only Jennifer Dowling, Bradfield’s true love. And Matt Larsen, his slovenly yet brilliant friend … recognize the unholy phenomenon which has fixated on, or perhaps emanates from Father Joseph, Bradfield’s dearest friend of all.
What will come of humanity when the clock counts down the impending rapture? Can one man make the difference, and stave-off mankind's ultimate doom at least for the time being? … When all roads appear to lead to one inexorable horrific beginning of the end … that is…
The Evilution.
327 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 22, 2014
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January 23, 2020
I had such high hopes for this book!
I tend to be a sucker for anything related to the Antichrist or the end of the world. But this book just comes off as super clumsy.
Now, the audio narration was done by S.W. Salzman and he was quite good. He has a good array of voices, even the female voices being varied and distinct. His vocal inflections are mostly good and his tempo shifts are subtle but effective.
From the very beginning, the writing is just clumsy, awkward, and FILLED with pointless back story.
There are SO many chapters that either start or are comprised almost (if not) entirely of back story that, as far as I can tell, has no bearing on the story.
Of this 8-hour audiobook, I would guess that less than 3 hours of it are happening in the present. The rest is back story that feels completely unnecessary.
For example, the entire first chapter from Father Joseph David's perspective is him writing the first part of his autobiography. None of which is in any way relevant to the plot and does almost nothing to deepen his character.
Now, there are some interesting things being done in this story.
I actually really like the way that technological advances are being used as simile for events depicted in the Book of Revelation. Much of this was cleverly done.
Unfortunately, much of the dialogue is also clumsy and very on the nose.
This book really could have benefited from the attention of a developmental editor or a story coach. I feel like there is a seed of a great story here, it's just so bogged down in clumsy writing and back story that it's hard to see it.
Similarly, the ending isn't really an ending. I had concerns over the last hour or two of the book and they proved accurate. There's a minor climax that feels like it should be the mid-point of a novel, then we go to an epilogue that jumps over months of time with no inkling of what has happened to almost all of the characters in the meantime.
If there is ever a re-release of this with the issues corrected, I will be more than happy to read it (and any successive books), but as it is I have no desire to continue this story.
I tend to be a sucker for anything related to the Antichrist or the end of the world. But this book just comes off as super clumsy.
Now, the audio narration was done by S.W. Salzman and he was quite good. He has a good array of voices, even the female voices being varied and distinct. His vocal inflections are mostly good and his tempo shifts are subtle but effective.
From the very beginning, the writing is just clumsy, awkward, and FILLED with pointless back story.
There are SO many chapters that either start or are comprised almost (if not) entirely of back story that, as far as I can tell, has no bearing on the story.
Of this 8-hour audiobook, I would guess that less than 3 hours of it are happening in the present. The rest is back story that feels completely unnecessary.
For example, the entire first chapter from Father Joseph David's perspective is him writing the first part of his autobiography. None of which is in any way relevant to the plot and does almost nothing to deepen his character.
Now, there are some interesting things being done in this story.
I actually really like the way that technological advances are being used as simile for events depicted in the Book of Revelation. Much of this was cleverly done.
Unfortunately, much of the dialogue is also clumsy and very on the nose.
This book really could have benefited from the attention of a developmental editor or a story coach. I feel like there is a seed of a great story here, it's just so bogged down in clumsy writing and back story that it's hard to see it.
Similarly, the ending isn't really an ending. I had concerns over the last hour or two of the book and they proved accurate. There's a minor climax that feels like it should be the mid-point of a novel, then we go to an epilogue that jumps over months of time with no inkling of what has happened to almost all of the characters in the meantime.
If there is ever a re-release of this with the issues corrected, I will be more than happy to read it (and any successive books), but as it is I have no desire to continue this story.
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